Flag Burning Not A Threat

June 22, 1990|The Morning Call

To the Editor:

Our founding fathers are, no doubt, recoiling in horror at the spectacle of sly politicians using the "flag burning" issue to subvert the democratic principles of our Constitution, and craven politicians willing to support the emasculation of the First Amendment so as to protect their jobs.

It is useless to appeal to those cunning and evil politicians who are itching to whittle away the freedoms that Americans enjoy, but I say, shame! to those who have weak spines and streaks of cowardice.

Flag burning is a mindless and asinine act and not a manifest threat to our government. If some idiot is disrespectful to our flag, it is only an isolated incident that has no bearing on the strength of our democracy, but when a law protecting our freedoms is diminished, it affects us all.

We hypocritically preach democracy and freedom to the world, and in practice abridge our own freedoms.